The Sermon Created In Christ by David McGee
Aug 17, 2014
Created In Christ (36:50)
Referenced Scriptures: Ephesians 2:7-10
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Ephesians 2:7-10
7) that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
8) for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9) not of works, that no one would boast.
10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
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Hard to imagine but I can remember doing that going to children's church on Sunday morning so that's been around a long time, so they were looking at created in Christ and its Ephesians chapter two verses seven through ten, venerated in the message Bible and then also in the King James and it's one of my is my favorite since but my scriptures that I like to think about than just ponder over it and today is life you have notes want to take notes or listen to this later and pick apart on on the Internet please do so because it's it's a very important today for an aspect of our life, what's involved in these verses, and I pray that God will help us as we put this out, it was difficult to put this together because my eyes. I've had a lot of film over them, and things and I couldn't read, so it was hard to read and hard with this altogether. So if I get lost. It's a blame it on my eyes. Okay, so that's a good excuse, but if vision chapter two verses seven through ten, and this is in the message Bible and will read it in the King James. Now God has us where he wants us with all the time in the world and the next to shower grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea and all his work. All we do is trusting enough to let him do it. It's God 's gift from start to finish. We don't play the major role if we did, we probably go around bragging that we done the whole thing. No, we neither made are we neither make nor save ourselves. God does the making and saving grades each of us by Christ Jesus to join him and the work he does the groundwork he has gotten ready for us to do work. We had better be doing so in the in the King James reads this way and were probably more familiar with this, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. So his weight. Think about our relationship with Christ. Everything about what we are to be doing now, we are of without are we predominantly in publicly in and force over and over again by grace you safety faith again we come to is our confession in Jesus Christ, that brings about our forgiveness. Okay, it is our confession of faith, our confession that Jesus Christ is the Savior that he is the Trinity, God the father, son, Holy Spirit, come to be with us in our house visiting a lady this week and she was coming that she has this individual from proceeds of the Java Jehovah witness that comes afterwards is constantly calling her and the person I was speaking with. She was seasoned a Christian. But she doesn't have a lot of biblical background is used as one of them. What are they so different. And I said while they don't believe in Jesus as being that being God, you know God created. It's like God created someone else to go and die for us, know that Jesus is a created being, and that's error hypocrisy the Christian faith, Catholic, Protestant and anti- Protestant denomination in a Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran Assemblies of God. Anyone other Protestant denominations and Catholic denomination, all of us home. The Christian principle is God the father, son, Holy Spirit, triune God three distinct yet one now. We may not be able to break it up and put it into three categories and say this is it, but it's that that is it that is what is portrayed in that in the New Testament. That's what's portrayed in the Old Testament, even given the imminent of the Jewish faith is a triune in your brings about last night, God, let us make man in our own image. So there is the pluralism of God throughout the Scriptures and the Jewish faith. The Hebrew faith on our Christian faith adhere to that. So we recognize that Jesus Christ is our Savior. Now we just make us and we'll see in this and the Scriptures we look at here, what we have to do with our birth into Ellen had nothing to do with our birth. We were greeted with and make it. We were made while God. The same creation happens with us in our salvation that we are made by God. We are created by God a new creation in Christ Jesus, that we are all things pass away our sins are failures of our pastor gone. So when we think of how that God is at work in our life. It is a work in progress, but it isn't something we are making it or something. God is working through us. Some guys working for us if we come to the end of life. When we come to the end of life and a five rust and are into eternity, and the only things that take us over there is the blood of Jesus Christ his forgiveness at the wish a lot of eternity. You know when you show up dad to like that one. When you wake up dead before God. You're the standard and report on your active matter that moment is all your sins forgiven, as it went on all the thing doesn't matter what you've done with your life matters is Christ, your Savior. So when you wake up dead and stand before God and Jesus Christ as your Savior. He doesn't know you that what happens in our fit, but when he does know us what happens in his article. Now if we can get into heaven without the blood of Jesus Christ, how we think were going to live for Christ here without Christ. You can't be a create. You can't be a Christian without Christ we can't live the Christian life without Christ we cannot be a Christian without Christ we cannot live the Christian life without Christ we need. We are dependent upon Jesus, because he is one who is creating created us and not only did he create us a greater purpose for us. You and I are living out the purpose God created for us. So if we're here trying to live our life so that we can fulfill some destiny that we think we should be doing, and in reality we should be allowing God to speak to our hearts to do the work that we are doing here and now, I say yes to quit what you doing gusset McCormack did God tell you what unlikely God has you where you're supposed to be right now. I doubt he's waiting for you to be depended upon him to flow through you where you're at will happen. That was not working on it. There should be a move-in nine and off. There should be something else because it all in and not in the past three of the NL pastors move you don't know that too much here because I think you've been here I've been here even stuck with me or whatever you been you been so gracious to us and and allowed us to be here all these years and solve it a lot of times people feel that it's time for them to move on, but we never felt that now we've had inkling summit at times, many years ago, but they never worked out and it was like this is what was supposed to be in this one was supposed to do is what got most of it through us is to go to each of you and you have that same responsibility backwards is not backwards to me but to God into your work of service for him. So we are responsible to do that so we are created in Christ, we are created in Christ, while verse seven says that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. He might show all the exceeding riches of his grace. What is the design and what is the aim of God introducing and affecting the change that needs to be in our life. Why does God want to produce a change in your life and in the ages to come, that he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness drug with the show you off. They want to show you off. This right here is a prime example my grace and kindness to you me that God wants to show us office like this is what it looks like for a person who allows my grace and kindness to be within you. Whoever's putting this together. The nation of Israel. We look at the nation of Israel. Why has it that that Israel would see them and we know from the very beginning, we as Christians we are deeply tied and slowly tied to the Jewish faith, when we held we come right out of Judaism when Abraham was called by God to come forward and leave their Arabic hobbies involving driver providing make a vinaigrette will make elimination and yell. He would have a negative front through him, the world would be blessed. Israel is one nation, God has chosen to show to all humankind. This is my people and no matter how far away they get no matter what happens to them. I am going to see them through every difficulty. Every trial every situation and what it's all homework, I'm going to point out to the entire world of humankind. These are my people. As the nation of Israel and we look at all the trials of all the conflicts in all the wars and everything is going over on in Jerusalem and in the areas to bring them through whether mankind United States or anybody else intervenes on their behalf. God is going to bring his rule through, they will not fail. They will not be conquered because there got now he created them for that purpose, to look at the hair who they are, they're mine. No matter what happens, they're still not. They may turn their back on the this is my then I walk away from me. There's still my using in our lives. God has created you for purpose, nor what trials you face the matter what difficulties you face God is created for purpose for his grace and for his mercy and when life is all very did you like to say these are my murders Abel, what about the trials, what about the things lively file when I look at that I called you I created you I put my spirit upon you. I create of the life we are to live and you may thought you were living on your own and doing what you're for your willingness, but in alternately redoing my purpose. That's why we as God 's children have to look through the eyes of the Scripture and our life, we have to look through the eyes of Scripture and our life and your IR. I remember years ago under the illustration I used was if you are sending of your radio station okay if your radio station, sending out a signal and the people you're talking to our receivers and their playing something back to you. I develop on the same station, a young are is what the airplane back to me when I'm sick, but I'm sending out at others not. I need to check my single love smash their receiver and a popularly special receiver will that do not often exit while the beatings will continue until the attitude changes. Gone is elevated so you no longer want your own way. Now God will lead us, God will guide us and God wants us to see ourselves through his word and through his throat when he wants to teach us in this verse, Irene got the introduction, but this is this is such an important aspect of them sick. I don't know who I don't know what I'm getting better. Okay thank you I'm getting better. God is very very very on getting better. I'm on my way to recovery. So it's the in the agency conduct a show us all know. Not only is the ageist comments tomorrow is the next thing is the next year. Next year until we started forgot only study for God, and there are these are the people. These are today which came out of these are the ones it came from the book of Revelation says these are they which came out of the great tribulation. These are they that came through life and all of its ups and downs of all the trials and difficulties. These are the ones that my grace and mercy brought in through what to make step of the way. Oh, how did I think you related me whenever no footprints in the sand. As one put one set of footprints less when I carried you. You thought you were on your own. Now you got there no ability of the Semeraro has whenever we try push in on the picture, but then the fact is that the New Testament message embraces a great deal more than the offer of pardon. I didn't drink their imagery that, then, that the message that gene that the New Testament message embraces more than just being saved from our sense. The message is one of being forgiven. Pardon, but it is also a message of repentance. I'm hardened because I repent measures of atonement that I am at one with God. It is a message of temperance of this ungodliness that it has had an effect upon the creating a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. It tells us that we must accept the Savior that we must allow his spiritual abide in our life to deny ungodliness and slowly observed the goodness of God is converging and saving sinners, and it is an encouragement to others to hold in his grace and his mercy seat, God has a way of creating hope through his grace in his mercy has changed us, and I have this card. It's from teen challenge and as a picture to individuals on it, and this is their story. My name is Jerry and I'm forty three years old from Reading, Pennsylvania. Growing up- most of my time in church or in school. I really didn't have a social life. I was allowed outside to play one hour on the weekends at the age of eighteen left my parents home. The experience of being as I called it free came with a lot of curiosity and temptations. I began to experiment with drugs and alcohol, which quickly became the norm in my life that the age of twenty a.m. I got married and had a child while my addictions grew. Everything I gained I lost because of my choices to continue in a lifestyle that far that I thought I could never change. I entertain challenge and two thousand for the first time and after couple of days. I thought had everything under control, so I left. I continued that for five cycles. I returned in two thousand twelve want to face the program graduating in December two thousand thirteen it's not because of anything I didn't the God saw fit to save me and allow and he allowed me to okay and out. Now I am staying on for at least six more months in the graduate program to allow God to continue his work in the decision bike racer, we say it isn't anything we have done is what God has done. God has gone before my grace is saved through faith, and not of yourselves, it is a gift faith. I like this one faith, the now teachers now faith faithfulness reliability promise slides prove trust, confidence faces. Faith is faithfulness reliability promised clients prove trust and confidence in addition, it can be used on a act of believing the content of which it believes believing the content of which it believes thing for a faith is trust, giving credence to be convinced that entrusted and have confidence so faith is the substance, however, were talking about faith were talking about both of these incidents. This is not all it's about with the same coin last to sign so when we have faith with confidence trust and prove we have without we are convinced we are entrusting and we have confidence in. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seeing if we would take the Scriptures may hear and we would recite the Scriptures of faith and believe everything that goes with it. What would we bill what would we may so if we work to find work. If you are not this is honestly sit down and go through the Scriptures, and we would start putting together faith with start putting together believe we start putting together trust in the Scriptures. All the Scriptures that trust us and them, and the personality of that that the faith of the personality of that hope and grace, and most of it altogether. What would we have, we would have Jesus medications the word made flesh and dwelt among us. So when we have faith were not just pulling an abstract thought of the book. Rather, the air we are sitting down with Jesus. Jesus is sitting down with us and he is saying to us, David all things work together for good. So when I quote that Scripture on allowing Jesus who is right here with each of us abiding with it are hard to to us and so at the end of life. Whenever we comes down before God is a HIV no difference when we stand before Jesus of the end-of-life. It should be no different there than it is here Jesus is standing here with us and I am standing before God I am standing before his word and his word is spoken to my heart by his spirit, which is Jesus standing here speaking this truth into my life. I'm not pulling abstract thoughts. I'm fooling and depending upon a reality of the person of God who inspire people to write and so when I put these truths together and I begin to put them in for mold them into a person into the personality of love and grace and mercy and of a preparation of all knowledge of all things to come than nothing somewhere. All things that will come out again to put all that together. I have Jesus started here with me and when I clocked a Scriptures. I have Jesus speaking to my heart. He speaks to me and never years ago pretrip roadways and came from a very liberal background Asia. He is the last he says it in the school we used to laugh at that verse of the song that some people save reader. Some people sing and he walks with me any talks with me. What a joke and laugh these of that is such a such a far-fetched idea that John walks with us and I just had a look that said, I believe that it is a far-fetched idea, it's the relationship that we have and the more we know of the Scriptures. The more we know of how God would speak to us, the more we see how the realities of God 's word come together, the more we handle the reality of God walking with us in speaking to us because the same Jesus that is walking with us here that we know is the same Jesus that where you stand with at the end of time. Whenever we wake up that, and it's getting this same Jesus, it's like walking into death and nine I have the far as to say I is the same God is God 's been with me every step of the way and is the first design for my Gracie is safe to say not of yourselves to God, you can save yourself a lot of work because if we can work our way into it. We would be probably boast about it. You know what I've done, but what I've accomplished for we are his workmanship, know the look is amazing what you know you remind me of Jesus as a bystander that you want. You remind me of Jesus and I when Jesus. Why would they, why would anybody say that we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, that what we do. We are created unto good works were created to do the things that God would do if he were standing here, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them him. It means that God has created us for purpose. We were created for divine purpose, and he created the work that we are to do, but we have a responsibility. We are designed to walk a path that God has created for us. So therefore, whatever happens on this path is cry quite within the row of God 's will. And so while we are in. This will of God. We are praying for his divine help wisdom, guidance, assistance, feeling whenever we pray for that he might stall out upon us. For what reason that we can continue the work that we are to be called into that he has prepared for us to do our God hath before ordained that is decreed and appointed or the words may be read, to which not have before prepared us. That is, by blessing us with the knowledge of his will, God has prepared us by giving us the knowledge of his will that this is the way walkie unit and the more we are accustomed to this walking with God, the more we are accustomed to this. This presence of God in the word of God being spoken to us from the less likely we are knocked off course because were not driven by winds and waves by fecal fingers of fate were not burnished as that's the old one fickle finger of fate and remember that when it was fantastic. The fickle finger of fate award goes to were not driven by the fickle finger of fate put that out there for my title. The sermon the fickle finger of fate that honestly okay, so my blessing us with the knowledge of his will, and with the assistance of the Holy Spirit by producing such a change in us. He has blessed us with the knowledge of his word. The knowledge and as well God has called us and knew he knew you would be here before the world was ever created. He knew you and I be right here, sitting, standing at the very moment he has a will for us to follow. It is a purpose for us to follow and we need to be sensitive in our hearts and in our minds that God is speaking to us speaking to us because he has created us for purpose and it isn't necessarily were to jump on a boat and go to Africa or on playing it may be the the survey), doing exactly what were doing for recognizing the hand of God the breath of God breathing through our mouth, giving us his word touching people with our hands, doing exactly what we're doing when we complete this task and then we'll see about doing something else, because the will of God is not someplace else. It will be God 's will of God. we are at the Christians are saved Christians are saved by God 's grace, faith is the only means by which graces received. I've got to have faith, no, if I opened the door. I'm expecting to go out or coming. My faith is opening the door to allow God to touch my life, my faith does not motivate God to come into my life, my faith opens the door that God who wants to come in is knocking at our heart 's door knocking our lives. And once the command to fill us with his spirit to fill us with his love renew a right spirit, creating a clean heart, give us the right ideas in my thoughts and my suggestions, and God wants us to happen. Why don't have enough faith, though I have to open the door. Faith is opening the door to allow God to do whatever he wants because faith is an infinitesimal. If I have faith of the grain of mustard seed, I'm expectation enough to open the door to allow God into my life. God 's new creation. We are his workmanship, people do not contribute to their rebirth anymore than they did to their natural birth. We don't contribute one. I'll to being saved our contribution is opening the door, and God did the rest. The FSS on the activity of God. We are his workmanship, we are the result of his activity. We are the result of his activity. God wants to do a new work and new so we are the result of his activity, God 's work. Salvation and a new life are God 's work and human beings. They are recipients, not the ones causing it. We do not cause God to do something with our recipient recipients of God 's doing. We allow him. God I surrender. I give up myself. I give up my will, my life, my all to you, I surrender all. We are recipients. We are not creating and what God says as he comes in any case, our abilities are words of our thoughts, our minds that everything we have and is transformed into something that God will use for his honor and glory because he walks with me any talks with me and he tells me I've is all joyously share as we tarry there none other than ever known were together in this. So when I wake up that standing before eternity and he walks with me. I know him. He knows me were safe or safe here in the is not what I'm doing. That's what I'm allowing God to do in the New Testament shores that God 's acting Christ's is parallel creation itself. God 's acting UNI is parallel to creation itself. God formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed and then making a living soul became the wife that same parallel is right over to you and I got reason to us, this new creation. Like everything else takes place in Christ slaughtering me, it's in Christ. This happens the new creation is based on Christ's resurrection. The creation of life in the midst of death from laughing. See how can we believe in creation because we believe that he created us in the same life-giving spirit. The parade. Where does the same life-giving spirit breathed into us. We have made a living soul that will live with him forever and then now God has us where he wants us for seven with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus God has all the time in this world and the next to shower us with grace and kindness through Christ Jesus. What we have to do what I have to do what I want to do open door opened the door opened the door to the Dennis home from the beginning, not the thing in husband was the same as what the doctor since we started. Then I can freeze the twelfth in the early life the world. He stepped down in the darkness us. We were darkness, he created us open my eyes and let me see beauty that made this heart adore you hope of a life spent with you this life in the next next verse. So here I am to worship about how say that you are my God you are altogether lovely where the altogether wonderful to me. King of all days, King of all days, glorious in heaven. Humbly, it came down to earth. You created all for me next fire of the worship said I wanted over eleven I'll never know how much it costs will never forget that we do for us. How much faith do I need to have faith enough to open the door to let God to me and do new work in the event graciously supplying it over and over upon us, father, we thank you that you have blessed us these trusts us, you renew us God to fill us. God is so wonderful, so abundant in your grace and mercy. God, thank you as we built the Scriptures and build all of them together. We see you. We see you standing there with us. And whenever we wake up dead in eternity, will see you right there, the same Jesus that has been built from your word in your spirit that we put together in our lives, it's you may wish as for him feel your touch. God may we breathe in the breath of the Holy Spirit, God breathed in the maybe breathing the breath of the Holy Spirit breathe on us and go fill us in. You've created us for purpose. You've outlined our path were walking this path with you, nothing will ever separate us. Nothing is ever impossible. God, you're there with us. May we see Jesus may receive you, Lord, may we see you. Thank you God for the faith you give us to open the door and then enter the questionHard to imagine but I can remember doing that going to children's church on Sunday morning so that's been around a long time, so they were looking at created in Christ and its Ephesians chapter two verses seven through ten, venerated in the message Bible and then also in the King James and it's one of my is my favorite since but my scriptures that I like to think about than just ponder over it and today is life you have notes want to take notes or listen to this later and pick apart on on the Internet please do so because it's it's a very important today for an aspect of our life, what's involved in these verses, and I pray that God will help us as we put this out, it was difficult to put this together because my eyes. I've had a lot of film over them, and things and I couldn't read, so it was hard to read and hard with this altogether. So if I get lost. It's a blame it on my eyes. Okay, so that's a good excuse, but if vision chapter two verses seven through ten, and this is in the message Bible and will read it in the King James. Now God has us where he wants us with all the time in the world and the next to shower grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea and all his work. All we do is trusting enough to let him do it. It's God 's gift from start to finish. We don't play the major role if we did, we probably go around bragging that we done the whole thing. No, we neither made are we neither make nor save ourselves. God does the making and saving grades each of us by Christ Jesus to join him and the work he does the groundwork he has gotten ready for us to do work. We had better be doing so in the in the King James reads this way and were probably more familiar with this, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. So his weight. Think about our relationship with Christ. Everything about what we are to be doing now, we are of without are we predominantly in publicly in and force over and over again by grace you safety faith again we come to is our confession in Jesus Christ, that brings about our forgiveness. Okay, it is our confession of faith, our confession that Jesus Christ is the Savior that he is the Trinity, God the father, son, Holy Spirit, come to be with us in our house visiting a lady this week and she was coming that she has this individual from proceeds of the Java Jehovah witness that comes afterwards is constantly calling her and the person I was speaking with. She was seasoned a Christian. But she doesn't have a lot of biblical background is used as one of them. What are they so different. And I said while they don't believe in Jesus as being that being God, you know God created. It's like God created someone else to go and die for us, know that Jesus is a created being, and that's error hypocrisy the Christian faith, Catholic, Protestant and anti- Protestant denomination in a Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran Assemblies of God. Anyone other Protestant denominations and Catholic denomination, all of us home. The Christian principle is God the father, son, Holy Spirit, triune God three distinct yet one now. We may not be able to break it up and put it into three categories and say this is it, but it's that that is it that is what is portrayed in that in the New Testament. That's what's portrayed in the Old Testament, even given the imminent of the Jewish faith is a triune in your brings about last night, God, let us make man in our own image. So there is the pluralism of God throughout the Scriptures and the Jewish faith. The Hebrew faith on our Christian faith adhere to that. So we recognize that Jesus Christ is our Savior. Now we just make us and we'll see in this and the Scriptures we look at here, what we have to do with our birth into Ellen had nothing to do with our birth. We were greeted with and make it. We were made while God. The same creation happens with us in our salvation that we are made by God. We are created by God a new creation in Christ Jesus, that we are all things pass away our sins are failures of our pastor gone. So when we think of how that God is at work in our life. It is a work in progress, but it isn't something we are making it or something. God is working through us. Some guys working for us if we come to the end of life. When we come to the end of life and a five rust and are into eternity, and the only things that take us over there is the blood of Jesus Christ his forgiveness at the wish a lot of eternity. You know when you show up dad to like that one. When you wake up dead before God. You're the standard and report on your active matter that moment is all your sins forgiven, as it went on all the thing doesn't matter what you've done with your life matters is Christ, your Savior. So when you wake up dead and stand before God and Jesus Christ as your Savior. He doesn't know you that what happens in our fit, but when he does know us what happens in his article. Now if we can get into heaven without the blood of Jesus Christ, how we think were going to live for Christ here without Christ. You can't be a create. You can't be a Christian without Christ we can't live the Christian life without Christ we cannot be a Christian without Christ we cannot live the Christian life without Christ we need. We are dependent upon Jesus, because he is one who is creating created us and not only did he create us a greater purpose for us. You and I are living out the purpose God created for us. So if we're here trying to live our life so that we can fulfill some destiny that we think we should be doing, and in reality we should be allowing God to speak to our hearts to do the work that we are doing here and now, I say yes to quit what you doing gusset McCormack did God tell you what unlikely God has you where you're supposed to be right now. I doubt he's waiting for you to be depended upon him to flow through you where you're at will happen. That was not working on it. There should be a move-in nine and off. There should be something else because it all in and not in the past three of the NL pastors move you don't know that too much here because I think you've been here I've been here even stuck with me or whatever you been you been so gracious to us and and allowed us to be here all these years and solve it a lot of times people feel that it's time for them to move on, but we never felt that now we've had inkling summit at times, many years ago, but they never worked out and it was like this is what was supposed to be in this one was supposed to do is what got most of it through us is to go to each of you and you have that same responsibility backwards is not backwards to me but to God into your work of service for him. So we are responsible to do that so we are created in Christ, we are created in Christ, while verse seven says that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. He might show all the exceeding riches of his grace. What is the design and what is the aim of God introducing and affecting the change that needs to be in our life. Why does God want to produce a change in your life and in the ages to come, that he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness drug with the show you off. They want to show you off. This right here is a prime example my grace and kindness to you me that God wants to show us office like this is what it looks like for a person who allows my grace and kindness to be within you. Whoever's putting this together. The nation of Israel. We look at the nation of Israel. Why has it that that Israel would see them and we know from the very beginning, we as Christians we are deeply tied and slowly tied to the Jewish faith, when we held we come right out of Judaism when Abraham was called by God to come forward and leave their Arabic hobbies involving driver providing make a vinaigrette will make elimination and yell. He would have a negative front through him, the world would be blessed. Israel is one nation, God has chosen to show to all humankind. This is my people and no matter how far away they get no matter what happens to them. I am going to see them through every difficulty. Every trial every situation and what it's all homework, I'm going to point out to the entire world of humankind. These are my people. As the nation of Israel and we look at all the trials of all the conflicts in all the wars and everything is going over on in Jerusalem and in the areas to bring them through whether mankind United States or anybody else intervenes on their behalf. God is going to bring his rule through, they will not fail. They will not be conquered because there got now he created them for that purpose, to look at the hair who they are, they're mine. No matter what happens, they're still not. They may turn their back on the this is my then I walk away from me. There's still my using in our lives. God has created you for purpose, nor what trials you face the matter what difficulties you face God is created for purpose for his grace and for his mercy and when life is all very did you like to say these are my murders Abel, what about the trials, what about the things lively file when I look at that I called you I created you I put my spirit upon you. I create of the life we are to live and you may thought you were living on your own and doing what you're for your willingness, but in alternately redoing my purpose. That's why we as God 's children have to look through the eyes of the Scripture and our life, we have to look through the eyes of Scripture and our life and your IR. I remember years ago under the illustration I used was if you are sending of your radio station okay if your radio station, sending out a signal and the people you're talking to our receivers and their playing something back to you. I develop on the same station, a young are is what the airplane back to me when I'm sick, but I'm sending out at others not. I need to check my single love smash their receiver and a popularly special receiver will that do not often exit while the beatings will continue until the attitude changes. Gone is elevated so you no longer want your own way. Now God will lead us, God will guide us and God wants us to see ourselves through his word and through his throat when he wants to teach us in this verse, Irene got the introduction, but this is this is such an important aspect of them sick. I don't know who I don't know what I'm getting better. Okay thank you I'm getting better. God is very very very on getting better. I'm on my way to recovery. So it's the in the agency conduct a show us all know. Not only is the ageist comments tomorrow is the next thing is the next year. Next year until we started forgot only study for God, and there are these are the people. These are today which came out of these are the ones it came from the book of Revelation says these are they which came out of the great tribulation. These are they that came through life and all of its ups and downs of all the trials and difficulties. These are the ones that my grace and mercy brought in through what to make step of the way. Oh, how did I think you related me whenever no footprints in the sand. As one put one set of footprints less when I carried you. You thought you were on your own. Now you got there no ability of the Semeraro has whenever we try push in on the picture, but then the fact is that the New Testament message embraces a great deal more than the offer of pardon. I didn't drink their imagery that, then, that the message that gene that the New Testament message embraces more than just being saved from our sense. The message is one of being forgiven. Pardon, but it is also a message of repentance. I'm hardened because I repent measures of atonement that I am at one with God. It is a message of temperance of this ungodliness that it has had an effect upon the creating a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. It tells us that we must accept the Savior that we must allow his spiritual abide in our life to deny ungodliness and slowly observed the goodness of God is converging and saving sinners, and it is an encouragement to others to hold in his grace and his mercy seat, God has a way of creating hope through his grace in his mercy has changed us, and I have this card. It's from teen challenge and as a picture to individuals on it, and this is their story. My name is Jerry and I'm forty three years old from Reading, Pennsylvania. Growing up- most of my time in church or in school. I really didn't have a social life. I was allowed outside to play one hour on the weekends at the age of eighteen left my parents home. The experience of being as I called it free came with a lot of curiosity and temptations. I began to experiment with drugs and alcohol, which quickly became the norm in my life that the age of twenty a.m. I got married and had a child while my addictions grew. Everything I gained I lost because of my choices to continue in a lifestyle that far that I thought I could never change. I entertain challenge and two thousand for the first time and after couple of days. I thought had everything under control, so I left. I continued that for five cycles. I returned in two thousand twelve want to face the program graduating in December two thousand thirteen it's not because of anything I didn't the God saw fit to save me and allow and he allowed me to okay and out. Now I am staying on for at least six more months in the graduate program to allow God to continue his work in the decision bike racer, we say it isn't anything we have done is what God has done. God has gone before my grace is saved through faith, and not of yourselves, it is a gift faith. I like this one faith, the now teachers now faith faithfulness reliability promise slides prove trust, confidence faces. Faith is faithfulness reliability promised clients prove trust and confidence in addition, it can be used on a act of believing the content of which it believes believing the content of which it believes thing for a faith is trust, giving credence to be convinced that entrusted and have confidence so faith is the substance, however, were talking about faith were talking about both of these incidents. This is not all it's about with the same coin last to sign so when we have faith with confidence trust and prove we have without we are convinced we are entrusting and we have confidence in. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seeing if we would take the Scriptures may hear and we would recite the Scriptures of faith and believe everything that goes with it. What would we bill what would we may so if we work to find work. If you are not this is honestly sit down and go through the Scriptures, and we would start putting together faith with start putting together believe we start putting together trust in the Scriptures. All the Scriptures that trust us and them, and the personality of that that the faith of the personality of that hope and grace, and most of it altogether. What would we have, we would have Jesus medications the word made flesh and dwelt among us. So when we have faith were not just pulling an abstract thought of the book. Rather, the air we are sitting down with Jesus. Jesus is sitting down with us and he is saying to us, David all things work together for good. So when I quote that Scripture on allowing Jesus who is right here with each of us abiding with it are hard to to us and so at the end of life. Whenever we comes down before God is a HIV no difference when we stand before Jesus of the end-of-life. It should be no different there than it is here Jesus is standing here with us and I am standing before God I am standing before his word and his word is spoken to my heart by his spirit, which is Jesus standing here speaking this truth into my life. I'm not pulling abstract thoughts. I'm fooling and depending upon a reality of the person of God who inspire people to write and so when I put these truths together and I begin to put them in for mold them into a person into the personality of love and grace and mercy and of a preparation of all knowledge of all things to come than nothing somewhere. All things that will come out again to put all that together. I have Jesus started here with me and when I clocked a Scriptures. I have Jesus speaking to my heart. He speaks to me and never years ago pretrip roadways and came from a very liberal background Asia. He is the last he says it in the school we used to laugh at that verse of the song that some people save reader. Some people sing and he walks with me any talks with me. What a joke and laugh these of that is such a such a far-fetched idea that John walks with us and I just had a look that said, I believe that it is a far-fetched idea, it's the relationship that we have and the more we know of the Scriptures. The more we know of how God would speak to us, the more we see how the realities of God 's word come together, the more we handle the reality of God walking with us in speaking to us because the same Jesus that is walking with us here that we know is the same Jesus that where you stand with at the end of time. Whenever we wake up that, and it's getting this same Jesus, it's like walking into death and nine I have the far as to say I is the same God is God 's been with me every step of the way and is the first design for my Gracie is safe to say not of yourselves to God, you can save yourself a lot of work because if we can work our way into it. We would be probably boast about it. You know what I've done, but what I've accomplished for we are his workmanship, know the look is amazing what you know you remind me of Jesus as a bystander that you want. You remind me of Jesus and I when Jesus. Why would they, why would anybody say that we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, that what we do. We are created unto good works were created to do the things that God would do if he were standing here, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them him. It means that God has created us for purpose. We were created for divine purpose, and he created the work that we are to do, but we have a responsibility. We are designed to walk a path that God has created for us. So therefore, whatever happens on this path is cry quite within the row of God 's will. And so while we are in. This will of God. We are praying for his divine help wisdom, guidance, assistance, feeling whenever we pray for that he might stall out upon us. For what reason that we can continue the work that we are to be called into that he has prepared for us to do our God hath before ordained that is decreed and appointed or the words may be read, to which not have before prepared us. That is, by blessing us with the knowledge of his will, God has prepared us by giving us the knowledge of his will that this is the way walkie unit and the more we are accustomed to this walking with God, the more we are accustomed to this. This presence of God in the word of God being spoken to us from the less likely we are knocked off course because were not driven by winds and waves by fecal fingers of fate were not burnished as that's the old one fickle finger of fate and remember that when it was fantastic. The fickle finger of fate award goes to were not driven by the fickle finger of fate put that out there for my title. The sermon the fickle finger of fate that honestly okay, so my blessing us with the knowledge of his will, and with the assistance of the Holy Spirit by producing such a change in us. He has blessed us with the knowledge of his word. The knowledge and as well God has called us and knew he knew you would be here before the world was ever created. He knew you and I be right here, sitting, standing at the very moment he has a will for us to follow. It is a purpose for us to follow and we need to be sensitive in our hearts and in our minds that God is speaking to us speaking to us because he has created us for purpose and it isn't necessarily were to jump on a boat and go to Africa or on playing it may be the the survey), doing exactly what were doing for recognizing the hand of God the breath of God breathing through our mouth, giving us his word touching people with our hands, doing exactly what we're doing when we complete this task and then we'll see about doing something else, because the will of God is not someplace else. It will be God 's will of God. we are at the Christians are saved Christians are saved by God 's grace, faith is the only means by which graces received. I've got to have faith, no, if I opened the door. I'm expecting to go out or coming. My faith is opening the door to allow God to touch my life, my faith does not motivate God to come into my life, my faith opens the door that God who wants to come in is knocking at our heart 's door knocking our lives. And once the command to fill us with his spirit to fill us with his love renew a right spirit, creating a clean heart, give us the right ideas in my thoughts and my suggestions, and God wants us to happen. Why don't have enough faith, though I have to open the door. Faith is opening the door to allow God to do whatever he wants because faith is an infinitesimal. If I have faith of the grain of mustard seed, I'm expectation enough to open the door to allow God into my life. God 's new creation. We are his workmanship, people do not contribute to their rebirth anymore than they did to their natural birth. We don't contribute one. I'll to being saved our contribution is opening the door, and God did the rest. The FSS on the activity of God. We are his workmanship, we are the result of his activity. We are the result of his activity. God wants to do a new work and new so we are the result of his activity, God 's work. Salvation and a new life are God 's work and human beings. They are recipients, not the ones causing it. We do not cause God to do something with our recipient recipients of God 's doing. We allow him. God I surrender. I give up myself. I give up my will, my life, my all to you, I surrender all. We are recipients. We are not creating and what God says as he comes in any case, our abilities are words of our thoughts, our minds that everything we have and is transformed into something that God will use for his honor and glory because he walks with me any talks with me and he tells me I've is all joyously share as we tarry there none other than ever known were together in this. So when I wake up that standing before eternity and he walks with me. I know him. He knows me were safe or safe here in the is not what I'm doing. That's what I'm allowing God to do in the New Testament shores that God 's acting Christ's is parallel creation itself. God 's acting UNI is parallel to creation itself. God formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed and then making a living soul became the wife that same parallel is right over to you and I got reason to us, this new creation. Like everything else takes place in Christ slaughtering me, it's in Christ. This happens the new creation is based on Christ's resurrection. The creation of life in the midst of death from laughing. See how can we believe in creation because we believe that he created us in the same life-giving spirit. The parade. Where does the same life-giving spirit breathed into us. We have made a living soul that will live with him forever and then now God has us where he wants us for seven with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus God has all the time in this world and the next to shower us with grace and kindness through Christ Jesus. What we have to do what I have to do what I want to do open door opened the door opened the door to the Dennis home from the beginning, not the thing in husband was the same as what the doctor since we started. Then I can freeze the twelfth in the early life the world. He stepped down in the darkness us. We were darkness, he created us open my eyes and let me see beauty that made this heart adore you hope of a life spent with you this life in the next next verse. So here I am to worship about how say that you are my God you are altogether lovely where the altogether wonderful to me. King of all days, King of all days, glorious in heaven. Humbly, it came down to earth. You created all for me next fire of the worship said I wanted over eleven I'll never know how much it costs will never forget that we do for us. How much faith do I need to have faith enough to open the door to let God to me and do new work in the event graciously supplying it over and over upon us, father, we thank you that you have blessed us these trusts us, you renew us God to fill us. God is so wonderful, so abundant in your grace and mercy. God, thank you as we built the Scriptures and build all of them together. We see you. We see you standing there with us. And whenever we wake up dead in eternity, will see you right there, the same Jesus that has been built from your word in your spirit that we put together in our lives, it's you may wish as for him feel your touch. God may we breathe in the breath of the Holy Spirit, God breathed in the maybe breathing the breath of the Holy Spirit breathe on us and go fill us in. You've created us for purpose. You've outlined our path were walking this path with you, nothing will ever separate us. Nothing is ever impossible. God, you're there with us. May we see Jesus may receive you, Lord, may we see you. Thank you God for the faith you give us to open the door and then enter the question